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Commissioner and subject to such conditions as he may by such authorization prescribe, be treated, for the purposes of reckoning hours of overtime employ- ment or the number of weeks in which overtime employment can take place, as if it were employment in different undertakings,

(9) If the Commissioner is satisfied that the nature of the business carried on in any industrial undertaking involves the overtime employment of different women or young persons on different occasions to such an extent that the provisions of this regulation limiting overtime employment by reference to the industrial undertaking would be unreasonable or inappropriate, he may grant permission in writing that such under- taking may, in lieu of complying with the said provisions, comply with such provisions limiting over- time employment by reference to the individual es may be specified in such consent #

Provided that-

(a) no woman or young person shall be employed overtime in such undertaking for more than one hundred hours in any year; and

(b) no woman or young person shall be employed overtime in such undertaking for more than six hours in any week or for more than twenty five weeks in any year.

(10) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) the expression "overtime employment"

means, in relation to any woman or young person, any period during which that woman or young person is at work in the industrial undertaking outside the period of employment fixed for the day for that woman or young person by a notice under regulation 9; (b) in calculating the hours of overtime employ- ment, any fraction of an hour less than half an hour shall be treated as half an hour and any fraction of an hour greater than half an hour shall be treated as an hour; and

Employ-

ment on

shift work.

(c) in reckoning the aggregate hours of overtime employment or the number of weeks in which overtime employment can take place, account shall only be taken of any period during which any woman or young person is employed in that industrial undertaking beyond the maximum hours prescribed in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of regulation 8 or either earlier or later, as the case may be, than the hours prescribed for the beginning and ending of the period of employment specified in sub- paragraph (b) of that paragraph.

10A. (1) Where in any industrial undertaking women or young persons over the age of sixteen are employed on a scheme of shift work, the provisions of regulation 8 may, subject to the provisions of this regulation and to the prior approval in writing of such scheme by the Commissioner, be read as though eleven o'clock in the evening were substituted for eight o'clock in the evening.

(2) Na proprietor of any industrial undertaking shall employ any woman or young person on any scheme of shift work involving work between the hours of eight o'clock in the evening and eleven o'clock in the evening, unless the following conditions are com- plied with, namely

(a) such shift work is carried on only in a build- ing approved in writing by the Commissioner; (b) a suitable room in which no industrial process is carried on is provided and equipped for use as a dining and rest room;

(c) the scheme provides for rotating shifts; (d) no period of employment under the scheme exceeds eight hours in any period of twenty four hours for any woman or young person! Provided that for the purpose of rotating shifts the period of employment on any day may be extended to twelve hours;

(s) every woman or young person employed on such shift work is allocated by the employer a serial number;